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Posted: 7/16/2009 7:31:15 AM | Anyone else a big fan? It fits my moods, even the dark ones.
I particularly like the works of John Williams and what he wrote for director Steven Spielberg (Sugarland Express, Jaws, Close Encounters, 1941, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Empire of the Sun, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Always, Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Lost World, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, AI, Minority Report, Catch Me if You Can, Munich, War of the Worlds, etc.).
Of course, he also wrote the music for the Star Wars saga, which, it could be argued, puts the emotion in what would otherwise be Lucas' visual tech-fest.
The late, great Jerry Goldsmith is right up there with Williams, in my opinion, with works like Patton, The Omen, Star Trek-The Motion Picture, Poltergeist and the first three installments in Sylvester Stallone's Rambo franchise.
Hans Zimmer (Gladiator), James Newton Howard (The Fugitive, Outbreak), Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings), James Horner (Star Trek II & III, Titanic), etc., etc.
Bernard Hermann, who scored just about every Hitchcock picture (Psycho, Vertigo, etc.)
Maurice Jarre, who scored almost every David Lean film (Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, etc.). | |
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Posted: 7/16/2009 9:15:01 AM | | I would add Ennio Morricione and Danny Elfman.....one of my internet radio stations plays nothing but movie music, its pretty intense to score when you think about it. | |
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Posted: 7/16/2009 9:37:31 AM | | i can't really listen to a score without the images to go with it... i like soundtracks | |
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Posted: 7/16/2009 10:03:43 AM | | I'm actually visually retarded.....music in general gives me amazing images compared to what hollywood or videos are fed to me.... | |
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Posted: 7/16/2009 11:40:19 AM | | Oh, yeah, my bad--how could I forget Elfman and Morricone. Elfman's signature work on Batman is legendary, and Morricone's Sergio Leone westerns wouldn't be complete without his "horse-opera" style. | |
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Posted: 7/16/2009 12:46:30 PM | Kpooks!
I tried to e-mail you, but couldn't. I have two words for you.....
GOLDSMITH!!!!!!
HERRMANN!!!!!!
Also... I don't know if you're aware of it, but Varese Sarabande just released(For the first time EVER!), Goldsmith's wonderful score for the Kirk Douglas film LONELY ARE THE BRAVE!!!!!! | |
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Posted: 7/18/2009 1:34:49 PM | Last of the Mohicans, Braveheart....The Crow...love those soundtracks.
Lisa Gerrard is great and she contributes to many sountracks...her voice is so haunting and etheral....it's almost like a religious experience or something.
My favorite Man on Fire...Creasy Dies...that final song she sings as he' is dying in the car...love that, so powerful for the scene | |
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Posted: 7/18/2009 2:16:43 PM | | Rogers and Hammerstein................Best ever and never tire of The Sound Of Music | |
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Posted: 7/18/2009 6:55:46 PM | | Goldsmith wrote the soundtrack to 13th Warrior, one of my absolute favorites. The movie was okay, but the sound track is breathtaking. | |
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Posted: 7/18/2009 7:48:53 PM | The newer posiden theme is amazing on a nice system. Whem i am laying back with it turned up and the huge bass hits all i can envision is the bow of a ship crashing into waves. As a metal head i would give up metal before my movie soundtrack collection.
Game tracks can be pretty good to. The old games were awsome because the music was on the cd's as wav files. Now they are all compressed into larger single game files :( | |
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Posted: 7/18/2009 9:00:14 PM | | Goldsmith had a long working relationship with Michael Chrichton(They were also close friends), who wrote The 13th Warrior. Graeme Revell(a sub-par composer) wrote the ORIGINAL score for the film, and Chrichton wasn't happy with it, so he had Revell's score thrown out, brought Goldsmith in, and Goldsmith composed a magnificent score for the film! | |
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Posted: 7/18/2009 10:01:44 PM | | i still havent found anything that beats lester flatt and earl scruggs's "foggy moutain breakdown" and deliverance's "duelin banjo's". | |
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Posted: 10/27/2009 8:22:53 PM | yes, but Deliverance was scary.....
Does anyone know who scored a Lasse Hallstrom film called "Shipping News???"
It's celtic drums & pipes haunt me for hours after viewing the film that is set in Nova Scotia, I believe. It is easily my favorite movie score that is non vocals (or a non "musical" genre movie like Oliver or South Pacific which are favs as well as Sound Of Music. Julie Andrews is truly gifted).
But the "Shipping News" score made me sit up straight and notice immediately - it's that good. Probably my overall favorite if I had to pick just one. I have seen the movie probably 6 or 7 times. It's wonderful film to watch with Kevin Spacey & Julianne Moore, but I have also watched it just to be able to listen to the music. | |
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Posted: 10/27/2009 10:46:28 PM | | James Bond movies and the soundtrack of Bram Stoker's "Dracula"...very good! | |
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Posted: 10/28/2009 11:03:38 AM | | Danny Elfman is probably my favourite film composer. Hard to believe he got his start in Oingo Boingo. | |
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Posted: 10/28/2009 3:37:04 PM | Hans Zimmer, I enjoy lots of his stuff.
Also after seeing Pan's Labyrinth for the first time I looked up the composer Javier Navarrete who did the film's scores. "The Labyrinth" is a very appropriate theme to the image it portrays.
Also Yeong-Wook Jo who did the soundtrack for Park Chan-Wook's Old Boy. A brilliant film with excellant music as well. "Cries and Whispers" by him is one of my favourite classical tunes. | |
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Posted: 10/28/2009 7:52:34 PM | | I justed wanted to comment that I thought it was funny that this was named "movie music" instead of "film scores." :) Oh and yeah John Williams, Danny Elfman, and Hanz Zimmer are my favorites. I also like Howard Shore and Harry Gregson- Williams (The Chronicles of Narnia.) | |
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Posted: 10/28/2009 10:10:12 PM | I've always preferred the term "film scores", though it isn't actually accurate(The term "Soundtrack" has always sounded a bit too geekish to me )! There are a wealth of terrific film score websites.... filmscoremonthly.com(FSM(Lukas Kendall) has released an ASTONISHING number of classic scores since starting their own label), moviemusic.com, Intrada.com(They(Doug Fake, et. al.) also have released a LOT of incredible scores... they released a 2-disc set of the complete Goldsmith score for Alien last year!), and many composers have both fan sites and official sites.
I'm going to list my favorite scores..
Bernard Herrmann - Obsession
Jerry Goldsmith - This one is hard(Since damned near everything he composed is a classic!), but I would have to say his score for the film Legend
John Williams -(TIE) Close Encounters of the Third Kind/ Jaws 2
Alan Silvestri - Cast Away(Notice my username! )
Obsession is my all-time favorite score, and - dare I say it! - my favorite music of ALL(Beatles included! ) | |
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Posted: 10/29/2009 5:12:47 PM | | for soundtracks, you can't beat amadeus. although on the waterfront runs a close second. | |
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Posted: 10/29/2009 7:41:24 PM | barbyanne2
yes, but Deliverance was scary
yes it was i saw it when i was 17.
the little kid playing the banjo was on "entertainment tonight" last year. hes still alive and doing well. | |
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Posted: 10/31/2009 1:33:53 PM | I always considered movie music composers to be the modern day version of the classical music composer.
I'm also a fan of James Horner and of course, John Williams, who made Star Wars and other Spielburg movies, 4 olympic theme songs, TV shows like Gilligan's Island and Lost in Space and of course classics like The Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure and Fiddler on the Roof (which he won an Oscar). | |
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Posted: 10/31/2009 9:13:38 PM | | In regards to Williams winning the oscar for Fiddler on the Roof, he didn't compose the songs, but adapted and arranged the songs, and he MIGHT have composed some underscore, based on the songs, but I'm definitely not an expert on musicals... just film scores! | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 1:30:31 PM | | The term "Film Score" is accurate. I was actually accepted to a film score program at a school in Hollywood, so if you think that's wrong you may want to call every music school in the country and tell them. :) Oh and all the film composers. | |
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Posted: 11/4/2009 9:29:44 PM | If the music from a film is RE-recorded for release on CD, it is usually called a film score, whereas if a CD of the music that was recorded FOR a film is released, it's usually called the Soundtrack(There have been exceptions, though). But as I said in a previous post, I prefer the term film score!
Side note - I just received my copies of Goldsmith's scores for Escape from the Planet of the Apes, and - on one CD - his scores for I.Q. and Seconds... both wonderful scores! | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 3:30:25 AM | I have always been a big fan of Bill Conti and his Rocky and James Bond film stuff.
Sylvester Levay has the one piece that just lifts me from a funk on film that no one has probably ever heard of. Creator
I also like what Meco did with the Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. | |
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